This summer school for advanced humanities students, scholars, archivists and librarians is devoted to the reflection on the nature and the future of digital datasets in Humanities. The first day will introduce the problems and goals of the summer school, with an plenary lecture on the theoretical basis of digital documents and a historical overview of the information and communication problems in Early Modern France. Subsequent days will alternate presentations in the morning with practical workshops in the afternoons. Participants will learn how to process source documents in a digital environment using appropriate tools. A variety of sample source documents, selected from local libraries and archives collections and digitized in advance, will be available as supporting materials for the workshops.

Presentation

We have the pleasure to announce the organization of the DARIAH Summer school ‘Bibliotheca Digitalis. Reconstitution of Early Modern Cultural Networks. From Primary Source to Data’ to be held in the City Library of Le Mans, France, 4th to 8th of July 2017. The event will be hosted by the City Library of Le Mans, France, and is supported by DARIAH.EU (Humanities at Scale) and the City of Le Mans, in partnership with Biblissima and the Centre d’Études supérieures de la Renaissance de Tours (Bibliothèques Virtuelles Humanistes).

Workshop Goals

Introductory training in the application of digital methods to Early Modern Historical documents

Digital transformation of raw textual data

Extraction and indexing of onomastic and bibliographical data

Alignment with prosopographic and bibliographic authority files

Presentation of computation tools and methods for historical or literary analysis, focussing on

Data relevance

Interoperability

Statistical and visual representations of data

This summer school for advanced humanities students, scholars, archivists and librarians is devoted to the reflection on the nature and the future of digital datasets in Humanities. The first day will introduce the problems and goals of the summer school, with an plenary lecture on the theoretical basis of digital documents and a historical overview of the information and communication problems in Early Modern France. There will also be an opportunity for participants to present their own research projects. Subsequent days will alternate presentations in the morning with practical workshops in the afternoons. Participants will learn how to process source documents in a digital environment using appropriate tools. A variety of sample source documents, selected from local libraries and archives collections and digitized in advance, will be available as supporting materials for the workshops. Output from the workshops will be compared with the workflow followed for the “Bibliotheques françoises” database, which documents many notable people of Maine and Anjou, as described by the late XVIth Century local writer François Grudé, sieur de La Croix du Maine. Public lectures will close each of the three days, given by internationally-recognised experts on different aspects of the Bibliotheca Digitalis. The Saturday morning session will permit discussion and reflection concerning the future of digital cultural heritage and of data in the Humanities.

Training staff

Sandrine Breuil,

Pierre-Yves Buard,

Mathieu Duboc,

Nicole Dufournaud,

Tiphaine Foucher,

Marc-Edouard Gautier,

Rémi Jimenes,

Guillaume Porte,

Sophie Renaudin,

Aurélien Ruellet,

Toshinori Uetani,

Marie-Laurence Viel.

Course programme

Access to the early evening sessions, in french, is free.

1st day, July 4th – Digital sources: theoretical fundamentals

Morning

9:30 – 10:00

Welcome to the Médiathèque Louis-Aragon of Le Mans by Sophie Rouyer

Introduction to the Bibliotheca Digitalis Summer school – Toshinori Uetani